Yakov Cherevichenko

Yakov Timofeyevich Cherevichenko (12 October 1894-4 July 1976) was a Colonel-General of the Soviet Red Army during World War II.

Biography
Yakov Timofeyevich Cherivchenko was born on 12 October 1894 in the village of Novosylovka, Rostov Oblast, Russian Empire, and he served as a non-commissioned officer in the Imperial Russian Army during World War I. Cherevichenko would return to his native region to organize a group of Bolshevik partisans in the defense of the new communist regime of Russia from the White Army during the Russian Civil War. He attended the Higher Cavalry School in 1924, and he was promoted to Lieutenant-General before leading the Odessa Military District from 1940 to 1941. In February 1941, he was promoted to Colonel-General, and he commanded the Soviet 9th Army at the start of Operation Barbarossa during World War II. On 5 October 1941, he took over the Soviet Southern Front from Dmitry Ryabyshev, and he took part in the Battle of Moscow and other counterattacks against the Axis Powers. In 1942, he would be sent to fill staff roles, and he retired from the army in 1950. He died in 1976 at the age of 81.